Militant research seminars and trainings

[Sam Halvorsen]

Some may be interested in these:

A range of seminars, discussions and training events will be taking place at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) that may be of interest to both researchers and activists from outside geography. Free-of-charge ‘fuller places’ are available for non-academics (activists, research partners etc), low-income researchers and postgrads who wish to participate in a session but do not have access to funding to register for the whole conference. Please contact session organisers for details. Further information will be updated at: http://www.pygyrg.co.uk/

 

1.     Participatory Methodologies Training Day, aimed at postgrads, early career researchers and anyone with an interest. It will take place on August 26th and limited bursaries will be available to help fund participation (contact: sam.halv...@ucl.ac.uk)

 

2.    Open Discussion on Co-production and relations of researcher-researched, in particular, we would like to encourage participation by people in ‘researched’ positions to come and share experiences and thoughts with those ‘researching (contact: myfanwy....@ucl.ac.uk)

 

3.    Seminar Discussion on Researching Social Movements, in particular exploring the continuities and contrast between militant research and participatory action research, and the many challenges of working with these methodologies. (contact: sam.halv...@ucl.ac.uk)

 

4.    Seminar Discussion on Social Movements, Commons and Other Values, we aim to explore contradictions, tensions and potentialities of co-production of ‘other values’, the common(s) and social change.

 

5. 'Power, knowledges, activism and social change in disability research' - session focusing on the challenges and opportunities of working 'with' participants, followed by a workshop with those involved in co-producing participatory disability research.